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	'<{title}>' => 'Fast Sunday',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="dreams">
	<h2>Dream journal</h2>
	<p>
		I dreamed I was at a weird restaurant.
		I&apos;m not sure what was being served, but I had forgotten to keep track of how much I ate, and was having to retroactively estimate so as to write it down in my dietary log.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="fasting">
	<h2>Fasting</h2>
	<p>
		Today was my first chance to actually participate in Fast Sunday, so I did.
		I said I wouldn&apos;t pray, but the biggest reason for that is that I&apos;ve been told to pray about the scriptures, and that&apos;s pretty much impossible to do sincerely while reading Genesis.
		The story of Genesis is just so impossible and so sexist that it simply can&apos;t be taken seriously by anyone rational.
		Some believers even try to rationalise it by calling it a set of parables, but as a set of parables, it becomes even worse.
		As parables, it presents a take on morality, and the take on morality it presents is simply horrible.
		So anyway, to open my fast, I did pray.
		I prayed that I&apos;d be fasting today, and asked again that the censorship at the school be lifted.
	</p>
	<p>
		I didn&apos;t feel very good while fasting.
		At first, my stomach felt fine, so I wasn&apos;t experiencing stomach hunger.
		My brain was a bit slow and unable to process as much input as it should have been able to.
		I kind of froze a bit while processing stuff a bit a couple times, missing what was continuing to go on in the mean time.
		My hands also felt shaky, though weren&apos;t visibly shaky.
		I guessed it was a symptom of cellular hunger.
		I was fully capable of easily making the trip to church and running my other errands in the areas though, so I guessed my bodily hunger must be low.
		My legs did feel a bit of weakness when I got home and lifted my bike up the stairs though, so the bodily hunger and the weakness that came with it did hit me a bit after about five hours.
	</p>
	<p>
		I worried I wouldn&apos;t be able to remain productive.
		If I missed something in church due to not eating, then that was just a part of my day.
		That is to say, whatever I missed <strong>*wasn&apos;t*</strong> a part of my experience for the day.
		However, I don&apos;t have the time to waste zoning out at home.
		Once I got home, I would need to type up my journal entry on what had happened.
		I decided that as long as I could continue writing my entry, I would continue my fast until just before work, as originally planned.
		But if I started zoning out too much, I would break my fast right away so I could try to avoid falling behind for the day.
		I ended up being able to keep my original commitment, and fasted until just before work.
		I guess the Mormons would want me to start work without food, then have dinner at work, but I just wasn&apos;t up for that, and knew even yesterday before I started that I wouldn&apos;t be.
		My job demands physical exertion from me, and I need the fuel to make that happen.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I agree, bing limited to using a subset of the Web drastically reduces our ability to find a relevant article, and makes doing so more time-consuming and painful.
			I&apos;d also add that the articles available to us are all written by big corporations, making them incredibly biased at times.
			Several of the articles also push specific products offered by the authoring companies; products we can be sure aren&apos;t as great as they&apos;re made out to be due to the bias.
			And to top it off, like you said, the search features of these sites aren&apos;t great, so we end up with results that don&apos;t match our queries.
			You mention that you reverse-engineered the question.
			Would you care to elaborate on your process of doing that, as well as tell us the final search terms you used?
			I think it&apos;d be of great help to the class to learn how to get working results out of these websites.
			I know I&apos;d appreciate getting better results, anyway.
		</p>
		<p>
			It certainly is wasteful for the subsystems to not integrate well.
			They end up doing extra work instead of relying on one another for what is already being done.
			It uses extra resources when the same caching, for example, is done in multiple places concurrently, which each cache used by only one of the subsystems.
		</p>
		<p>
			I&apos;m also curious to know what was included by the author as a &quot;commonly-used operating system&quot;.
			Windows is well-known to waste resources out the wazoo, but Linux really should know better than to engage in such behaviour.
			It&apos;s got a growing market share on the desktop, though still fairly small.
			It may have been included as common though due to having the vast majority of the market share when it comes to servers, and server software was addressed by the paper.
			I&apos;m interested to know if Linux suffers from this flaw.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religious study</h2>
	<p>
		At the beginning of the sacrament meeting today, the baptee member from yesterday was confirmed a member.
		This time, the laying of hands involved six members standing around them.
		I still don&apos;t know what determines who will be involved and not.
		They blessed the new member to have growing determination in following the scriptures, to become a tool of the lord, and to have the desire to lean on Jesus.
	</p>
	<p>
		As mentioned above, today was Fast Sunday.
		I don&apos;t know if I mentioned it before, but it seems Fast Sunday is when members of the congregation are allowed to get up and speak.
		I&apos;m fairly certain I mentioned that it seemed to be a monthly occurrence, and I later found out that this is why.
		Fast Sunday happens every month.
	</p>
	<p>
		One person spoke about how they&apos;d overheard someone say that it&apos;s a shame that there are no modern-day prophets.
		The almighty only spoke to us in the days of old.
		It made the speaker glad that we do have a modern-day prophet, as that&apos;s what their religion teaches.
		They&apos;re thankful that Joseph Smith restored the church so we can have continued guidance from Jesus.
	</p>
	<p>
		The next speaker talked about how Joseph Smith had asked Jesus what church to join.
		The heavens opened at that point, according to the speaker, and remain open today.
		They also said that the current president of the church has quickened the pace because end times are coming.
		They also talked about how the church now has at least two hundred temples now, and that that&apos;s one temple for each year since Joseph Smith prayed in the &quot;sacred grove&quot;, as the speaker put it.
		Is that grove actually believed to be sacred according to the church?
		Has its location even been preserved?
		And does the church own that land?
		Anyway, they said that Joseph Smith has done more to save humankind than any other person.
		I had to wonder: does that include Jesus?
		They also mentioned that Joseph Smith wrote some important books.
		I think they mentioned the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants, but not the Pearl of Great Price.
		I was still trying to catch up on note-writing from the previous thing said though, so I may have just missed mention of the third book.
		They closed saying that Joseph Smith lived great and died great in the eyes of the lord.
	</p>
	<p>
		The next speaker said that the reason they know the teachings of the church are true is because they prayed, then moved forward in faith.
		Um.
		That doesn&apos;t tell you the teachings are true.
		That tells you that the teachings haven&apos;t killed you.
		You&apos;re trusting in what you have no evidence of; that&apos;s what faith is.
		Faith isn&apos;t even as meaningful as an educated guess.
		They also said that if you want to know if the gospel is true, you should pray, have faith, and prepare to do whatever your feelings tell you to do, even if the answer your feelings give you is a bad answer.
		Again, you&apos;re having to put your trust in what there&apos;s no evidence of.
		And of course, your belief then taints your interpretation of reality, so you don&apos;t actually learn anything that way.
	</p>
	<p>
		The next speaker discussed how they&apos;d seem missionaries at a bus stop.
		They got the feeling the missionaries could use a ride.
		It sounded like they weren&apos;t prepared to safely stop, so they took reasonable action.
		They continued forward, but pulled turned around and went back when it was safe to do so.
		It turns out that they missionaries were tired and had just prayed that a member of the church would offer them a ride.
		Therefore, the Holy Ghost had prompted them to give the missionaries a ride.
		My initial thought was that the driver had likely read their faces.
		If they were tired, their faces probably would have shown it.
		They were probably also scanning cars with their eyes, hoping one would stop.
		The driver simply wasn&apos;t in tune with their own mind, so they didn&apos;t understand that it wasn&apos;t the Holy Ghost or any other outside force, but their own subconscious powers of observation.
		We&apos;ve evolved to notice things around us; it helps with our survival.
		But the conscious part of our brains can&apos;t process all of the data, so the subconscious does a lot of filtering, and boils down stimuli into feelings and intuition before passing it to the conscious part of the brain.
		But as I write this, I realise that there&apos;s even more to what would seem like coincidence without inserting mythical figures into the story such as the Holy Ghost.
		The missionaries were waiting <strong>*at a bus stop*</strong>.
		Of <strong>*course*</strong> they&apos;re looking for a ride!
		I mean, they might be assuming that the only ride they&apos;ll get is on the bus, but clearly, if they&apos;re at the bus stop, they&apos;re looking for a lift somewhere.
		It&apos;s a safe bet to say they&apos;ll be happy to get a ride from a fellow member of the church, as that&apos;ll involve less waiting.
		The driver should have picked up on this, and I&apos;m guessing that subconsciously, they did.
		As for the prayer?
		They&apos;re missionaries!
		They&apos;re about as dedicated to the church as people get, and when they&apos;re feeling like they could use help, they&apos;ll pray about it.
		So they prayed for help and waited at a bus stop where they knew that at the very least, a bus driver would help them.
		The driver noticed people that were clearly trying to get somewhere and had no car, trusted that fellow church members clearly recognisable by their missionary attire would be safe to give a ride to, and stopped to offer them a ride.
		The simplest explanation for these events doesn&apos;t require the intervention of supernatural entities at all!
	</p>
	<p>
		The next speaker mentioned that after a recent baptism, they went to a baby blessing on the same day.
		What&apos;s a baby blessing?
		If I remember, I&apos;ll ask the missionaries about it.
		I won&apos;t remember though, as the lack of food is messing with my brain too much, and by the time I&apos;ve eaten, I&apos;ll have forgotten already.
		They also talked about how we&apos;ll be with our earthly families as an eternal family.
		Ugh.
		I really don&apos;t want to deal with my mother for the rest of eternity.
	</p>
	<p>
		The next speaker said that gospel is the application of scripture.
		What they feel strongest about is faith and repentance.
		Faith is pretty much the opposite of logic and reason though, so you could say that faith is the part of the gospel I feel strongest about too.
		I just feel strongly that faith is counterproductive and holds back society.
		They said that Jesus was the greatest teacher, even if you strip out the religious aspects of what he taught.
		I&apos;ll have to see if I agree, once I get to his section in the bible.
		They also said that the commandments are an opportunity to exercise faith, and that we&apos;ll inherit everything that the father has.
		We&apos;ll inherit it all?
		Elohim is giving up everything and will be left with nothing?
	</p>
	<p>
		The next speaker said they had had questions due to all the evil in the world.
		However, every question they&apos;d had had been answered in the recent General Conference talks.
		Well, yeah, of course.
		These people are there specifically trying to make sense of all the evil in the world and reassure people that it doesn&apos;t mean that there are no gods.
		That&apos;s pretty much their job.
		They&apos;re retired from real work, and spend their days contemplating religion and fooling themselves into thinking that their own thoughts are words from the divine.
		Anyway, they said that when church authorities speak, their heart opens, and that the saviour guides us in each of our experiences and in each day.
		If the saviour is guiding all of my experiences though, they&apos;re guiding me to the conclusion that they&apos;re nothing more than ancient mythology that people haven&apos;t figured out is fiction yet.
	</p>
	<p>
		Up next, we had the crazy person!
		I was looking forward to what they had to tell us this week.
		First, they commented on the women in their life.
		Even the ones without children of their own tend to help raise the children of their siblings.
		They then talked about some of the scriptures.
		In one section, sick people were laid out in the streets to be healed when Jesus came through.
		People were healed by merely touching Jesus&apos; robes.
		There&apos;s a passage later in which a woman with some sort of blood disease is convinced that if she can just touch Jesus&apos; robes, she&apos;ll be healed.
		I think in one version of the story, Jesus&apos; healing power gets syphoned from him temporarily while against his will (while he wasn&apos;t using said power, so it didn&apos;t interfere with anything, but Jesus did feel and notice it happening) by this act, and she was healed on the spot.
		I think in the other version, Jesus deliberately heals her.
		Anyway, the speaker said that what she did wasn&apos;t done in faith, but rather because of knowledge.
		She knew Jesus had healed many other people when they&apos;d just touched his robes, so if the clear patern continued to hold true, it should work for her as well.
		It was a very good point.
		Next, they said to make sure to read the church program every week, even if you don&apos;t read it in church.
		Take it home and read it if you need to.
		They also said that we don&apos;t talk about Joseph Smith enough.
		Um.
		What?
		Members of the congregation bring up Joseph Smith pretty much every time there&apos;s a chance to.
		Not every one of them does, but we hear about Joseph Smith every time the congregation is allowed to speak.
		Maybe they mean that the church leaders should talk about him more?
		They also said that they&apos;ve watched the ward split up into multiple wards repeatedly over the years.
		Based on their visible age, I have no doubt that this is true, if they&apos;ve been with the church most of their life.
		Disappointingly, nothing this crazy person said today was actually very crazy at all.
		Some of it was on par for the level of crazy a typical congregation member seems to have, while some of it was normal observations and even insightful takes on scripture.
	</p>
	<p>
		The next speaker was a child.
		They didn&apos;t speak for long, but said that the children they know that don&apos;t have Jesus tend to make pretty dumb choices.
	</p>
	<p>
		The next speaker claimed that if you get a warm, fuzzy feeling, that&apos;s the Holy Ghost.
		They claimed that you get a Warm, fuzzy feeling any time you hear the truth.
		They made the claim that when you feel fuzzies, you can&apos;t deny them as truth.
		Um.
		Not really.
		I often get chills of shock when I hear the truth.
		The truth is often terrible, and it doesn&apos;t make me feel good to hear it.
		I mean, I <strong>*want*</strong> to hear the truth, but unpleasant truths aren&apos;t going to give me pleasant feelings.
		Truth isn&apos;t always warm and fuzzy.
		Likewise, lies can be warm and fuzzy too.
		If we claim warm fuzzies to be truths and unpleasant feelings to be triggered by lies, we&apos;ll have a skewed view of reality in which we deny anything we don&apos;t like and believe in anything we wish were true.
		That kind of attitude explains how the church keeps members though.
		If you believe fuzzies to be truths, the concept of not having to vanish when you die is going to seem like a truth, despite there being no other evidence.
		They continued that non-Christians can feel the Holy Spirit too, though they deny the fuzzies he brings as being truth.
		Duh.
		Fuzzy feelings have nothing to do with truth or lack thereof.
		They said though that when non-believers feel the fuzzies, that&apos;s when you can&apos;t let go, and you&apos;ve got to keep pushing your religion on them.
	</p>
	<p>
		The next speaker says that Satan used to always whisper to them about how terrible of a person they were.
		Because of that, they chose not to have more children.
		I guess they were kind enough not to want to ruin the children.
		Later though, they had two more children, so I guess they either got over their inferiority complex or they gave up on their values.
		I hope I never give up on my values, and I never decide that creating more people is somehow acceptable behaviour for me to engage in.
		Anyway, they thought that they&apos;d never work in primary, where the child indoctrination into the church happens.
		They thought that the church would keep them away from children.
		Instead, they ended up working with the children as a primary teacher anyway.
		They then talked about how Jesus loves us and how he suffered and died for our sins.
	</p>
	<p>
		The first thing the next speaker did was address the previous speaker in front of everyone.
		They said they were patient and great with children, and didn&apos;t know what they were worried about.
		Didn&apos;t you listen?
		Satan!
		They were worried about Satan, who was telling them how terrible they are.
		If I thought Satan was whispering to me about how terrible I was, I&apos;d feel like crap about myself too!
		I assume the previous speaker wasn&apos;t hearing literal whispering, but if they were, I&apos;d be even <strong>*more*</strong> worried in their place.
		After praising their fellow congregation member, they made the claim that the people of old didn&apos;t want to listen to Jesus because he was uneducated.
		Personally, I think it&apos;s because that&apos;s what worked best for the story, as there&apos;s no evidence that he was even a real person, and last I heard, the current consensus was that he was likely formed from an amalgam of several real and fictional people.
		The speaker brought up that Moses also wasn&apos;t educated, and that he did great things, so people shouldn&apos;t have assumed that the uneducated wouldn&apos;t be important people.
		They also said that people these days are too stubborn to listen to people that haven&apos;t been to seminary.
		Seminary?
		Not college, but seminary?
		Isn&apos;t seminary a crash course on religion?
		They said that the people claim that the prophet can&apos;t know things because he doesn&apos;t have a piece of paper.
		Do you get a degree from seminary too?
		I&apos;m confused here.
		But they said we don&apos;t need a piece of paper or an education, because we can instead listen to the Holy Spirit.
		They continued that they feel for the missionaries.
		They spend so much time knocking on doors, and they get those doors slammed in their faces.
		Personally, I don&apos;t recommend slamming doors on people unless they&apos;re being rude, and I&apos;ve never seen a rude missionary.
		People that go door-to-door for any reason are going to have it hard, so the least you could do is be polite, even if you&apos;re not interested.
		I think the speaker would agree with that sentiment, even when applied to non-missionaries, such as door-to-door salespeople.
		They also said that there are so many lost sheep, and we need to go out and find them.
		Heh.
		If anything, I&apos;m one of these &quot;lost sheep&quot;; I don&apos;t believe a word of this religion.
		They also said that their ancestors were among those that didn&apos;t listen to Jesus, having wanted him the have a different kind of education.
		Which is it?
		Was he uneducated, or did he have the wrong sort of education?
		There&apos;s a huge difference.
		Anyway, they concluded by saying that they find it easier to accept religion because there is a living prophet.
	</p>
	<p>
		The next speaker got up just to comment on the speech just before.
		I think that they were the same person to tell the other speaker that they were great with children, but I can&apos;t swear to that.
		Anyway, the previous speaker claimed that people that didn&apos;t hear out the missionaries had &quot;hardened their hearts&quot;.
		It seems to be a phrase the church is partial to.
		They seem to use it to mean that someone is being stubborn or intentionally obstinate, but the scriptures also use it to refer to people who don&apos;t believe things without sufficient evidence, lumping us into the same group.
		This speaker made the assertion that closing doors on missionaries doesn&apos;t mean our hearts are hard.
		They said that missionaries come to use because we called on the lord, so our hearts aren&apos;t hardened.
		They said that often time, missionaries came right after they prayed, but they didn&apos;t hear them out because they didn&apos;t realise that they were the help they asked for.
		Rather, we just don&apos;t understand that the missionaries are here to answer our prayers.
		They closed, asking the missionaries not to stop knocking on doors.
	</p>
	<p>
		They final speaker said that they love missionaries.
		Missionaries help people.
		In fact, forget the religion connotation.
		Missionaries aren&apos;t about the church, they&apos;re about helping people.
		We&apos;re all missionaries.
		It seemed like a redefinition of the word to me, but was otherwise a nice sentiment.
		Then concluded by asserting that they teachings of the church are true though, despite not being what missionaries are about.
	</p>
	<p>
		I actually wrote about every last speaker that got up this time.
		Is it that I think every speaker has something interesting to say when my brain is food-deprived?
		Possibly.
		It might also be because this was the first time I took notes directly on my laptop in church instead of writing in a notebook.
		It&apos;s easier on my laptop, but it also makes me self-conscious.
		I worry people will think I&apos;m being disrespectful by doing something completely unrelated to the meeting, such as writing a paper or surfing the Internet.
	</p>
	<p>
		After the sacrament meeting, we had Sunday school.
		I wasn&apos;t prepared.
		I just can&apos;t keep up with the workload, and I&apos;ve had to stop reading the scriptures ahead of time that we&apos;ll be covering at church, despite having access to that information.
		The discussion started with how Jesus was to be stoned for claiming to be the son of a god, which was blasphomy.
		However, Jesus pointed out that written in the law of the day, people are gods.
		Claiming to be the child of a god should be less blasphomous than claiming to <strong>*be*</strong> a god.
		That seems like an odd thing to have written into law though.
		It doesn&apos;t define a rule to follow or anything like that.
		It&apos;s a statement of supposed fact.
		Anyway, Jesus claimed that to inherit eternal life, you need to become &quot;converted as a little child&quot;.
		Also, you absolutely have to be &quot;born again&quot;, or it doesn&apos;t even matter if you&apos;ve been converted.
	</p>
	<p>
		It was also said that you should first try to resolve conflicts privately.
		That&apos;s good advice.
		If that doesn&apos;t work, you should go public if you have to.
		Okay, seems reasonable.
		If someone is being a problem, perhaps the pressure of publicity will get them to be reasonable.
		You should of course attempt to resolve things without public shaming, but we already covered that as the first step.
		However, if going public doesn&apos;t work, it was said that you should then go to the church and consider the person you&apos;ve got a beef with to be a heathen.
		Um.
		What?
		You lost me on that one.
		Someone disagrees with you and can&apos;t be made see things your way, so they&apos;re a heathen?
		See, this is why religious nuts don&apos;t fit in with well-adjusted people, included well-adjusted religious people.
		It was also stated that if you&apos;re offended by something, it means you&apos;re not listening to the Holy Ghost.
		Uh ...
		Again, you lost me on that one.
	</p>
	<p>
		It was also said that the things bound on earth shall be bound in heaven.
		They example of marriages bound in one of the temples was mentioned.
		However, it apparently includes the more-bureaucratic, too.
		Drastic policy changes between prophets doesn&apos;t mean that one or both were false prophets.
		It&apos;s not that Jesus is suddenly changing his mind about things without reason, coincidentally right as prophets are switching in, either.
		Instead, Jesus is bound by whatever the church authority agrees upon.
		While they were talking about that, it sounded completely bogus.
		Now that I&apos;ve had food though and can think clearly, it sounds much less like the prophet speaks for Jesus and more like the prophet makes decisions for Jesus.
		But also, because this is a living, breathing church, Jesus&apos; will will change depending on circumstances, just like any human&apos;s decisions on how to get things done would.
		When circumstances change, policies <strong>*need*</strong> to change.
		It was also said that Jesus might just be giving us different takes on his main two commandments when he changes policies around.
		Those commandments being to love Jesus and to love your neighbour.
		The church also has to follow the laws of the land.
		Human laws are therefore higher than Jesus&apos; laws?
		Supposedly the doctrines don&apos;t change, only policies change.
	</p>
	<p>
		Apparently, Jesus said you need to forgive people four hundred ninety times before you give up on them.
		But according to the teacher, this number may actually represent infinity.
		So don&apos;t give up on people, just keep forgiving them.
		Also, it was mentioned that seven is a &quot;perfect&quot; number.
		What does that even mean?
		The only thing I know to be special about the number is that it&apos;s prime.
		Is eleven also a perfect number?
		It was said that we need to be unfairly generous when it comes to the needs and desires of others.
		Also, when we forgive people, it allows us to let go.
		When you don&apos;t forgive, it weighs you down.
		When we forgive, it helps us heal from the situation.
		That&apos;s actually pretty good advice.
		It was mentioned that Jesus may have partly been referring to forgiveness when he said we should be as children.
		Children are quick to forgive.
		It was also stated though that dogs are quick to forgive, so the teacher was happy Jesus chose to compare what we should be to children instead of dogs.
	</p>
	<p>
		Finally, the teacher tried to reverse logic on us.
		This said people try to get evidence before they believe something, and that&apos;s the wrong way to go about things.
		Instead, you need to apply faith before you can get confirmation.
		However, you still don&apos;t get any hard evidence, so you&apos;re still running on faith at that point.
		You can&apos;t know these things, you have to just do them.
		You really have gotten nowhere.
		Again, I have to assert that without evidence, you&apos;ve got nothing to go on.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="diet">
	<h2>Dietary intake</h2>
	<p>
		I skipped breakfast and lunch because missionaries of a religion that I don&apos;t believe in told me it&apos;d help me find a god I also don&apos;t believe in.
		I&apos;m just the kind of fool that humours missionaries.
		It was an interesting exercise of willpower though, and I think it&apos;ll help me eat less in the future.
		Before work, I had a snack to make sure I could actually perform my duties.
		It was with my snack that I failed.
		I should have eaten just enough to last me until dinner.
		Instead, in a fit of hunger, I binged.
		Even after I wasn&apos;t hungry any more, I kept eating.
		I had 327 grams of salsa, 66 grams of corn chips, and 226 grams of pretzels
		I did pretty well for a first attempt though.
		I made it through without giving into the temptation of food or water even once until my time was up.
		I&apos;ll do better when I try this again next month.
	</p>
	<p>
		I had a veggie patty, dairy-free cheese, ketchup, and mustard sandwich for dinner.
	</p>
	<p>
		Having binged so much, I figured I should work something low-calorie into my diet for a bit.
		So after work, I stopped by the grocery store and tried to buy some salad and balsamic vinegar.
		However, the bottle return credit kiosk ate my credit and crashed again.
		This is the <strong>*fourth*</strong> time that the kiosk has eaten my money like that.
		I&apos;m not going to be able to get over to the bottle-redemption centre to get it fixed until Tuesday, and I won&apos;t have a chance to get to the grocery store again after that until Sunday at the earliest, so that means no salad this week.
		(I'm near the bottle-deposit place on Sunday and Tuesday mornings, but near the grocery store on Sunday and Monday nights.)
	</p>
</section>
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